Classic Iditarod Photos
The aurora borealis, or northern
lights, fill the sky above the Takotna, Alaska checkpoint during the
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Wednesday, March 9, 2011.
Iditarod front-runner Dallas
Seavey makes his final drive toward Nome, Alaska, during the Iditarod
Trail Sled Dog Race on March 13, 2012.
Wolvie and Roscoe stir as Karen
Ramstead prepares to feed them in Nikolai, Alaska, during the Iditarod
Trail Sled Dog Race on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 .
Two of Iditarod Trail Sled Dog
Race rookie Lori Townsand's dogs play as they wait their turn for the
pre-race checkup, Feb. 28, 1996, at the Iditarod headquarters in
Wasilla, Alaska.
One of Tim Osmar's sled dogs
looks out of its pen before the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog
Race in Willow, Alaska, Sunday, March 2, 2008. A record field of 96
mushers are running the 1,100 mile sled dog race to Nome
The northern lights are seen from Ruby, Alaska on March 8, 2012.
Mitch Seavey is the first musher in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to
reach the village of Ruby, on Friday, March 9, 2012, 480 miles from the
finish line at Nome
Bruce Johnson of Atlin, B.C., Canada, takes a nap in the heat of the
day at Nikolai checkpoint along the Iditarod trail in Alaska, March 12,
1987.
Iditarod musher Don Honea feeds
his dog team at Skwenta, 125 miles into the 1,135 mile race from
Anchorage to Nome, Alaska on March 7, 1984.
Rick Swenson leads his team the
final few yards at the conclusion of the ninth annual Iditarod Sled Dog
Race in Nome, Alaska, March 19, 1981. The Eureka musher won the race for
the third time, covering the 969 miles from Settlers Bay, near
Anchorage, to Nome in 12 days, 8 hours, 45 minutes and 2 seconds.
Jim Lanier, of Chugiak, Alaska,
drives his team through the blowing snow on the Yukon River outside
Ruby, Alaska, on Saturday, March 11, 2006, during the Iditarod Trail
Sled Dog Race.
Canadian musher Sebastian
Schnuelle drives his team across Norton Bay, March 16, 2009, near the
Shaktoolik, Alaska checkpoint on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Sixty-seven year-old musher Jim
Lanier, drives his team up the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race trail
between Unalakleet and Shaktoolik, Alaska, Monday, March 10, 2008.
